watch your fingers
We made our annual trip to Florida to visit friends in Palm Beach County at the beginning of March. This is the latest in winter we've gone, and the differences in what birds were around were interesting.
domestic bliss
At Wakodahatchee Wetlands park, the Wood Storks were nesting. Some of them were in trees right next to the boardwalk, practically close enough to touch if you didn't mind losing a couple of fingers. In January and February of past years, the dominant nesters were Great Blue Herons; this time it was the storks and smaller shorebirds like Tricolored Heron and Cattle Egret.
shorebird condo
All the little hammocks had nests in them. They were like shorebird condos. They generally had Great Blue Herons at the top.
"I just adore a penthouse view..."
Stork nests were below the Great Blues, and then Anhinga nests farther down.
nice neighbors
Cattle Egret and Tricolored Herons tucked their nests into cozy little crannies throughout the trees. Double-Crested Cormorants mostly had their own hammocks.
cozy
